From: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>, F@maniforge.lan
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net,
andrii@kernel.org, martin.lau@linux.dev, song@kernel.org,
yhs@meta.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, kpsingh@kernel.org,
sdf@google.com, haoluo@google.com, jolsa@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf/docs: Document struct task_struct * kfuncs
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 14:58:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y45bbn+5vDPgM12z@maniforge.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y44X5uQ0tJoCvQ96@maniforge.lan>
On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 10:10:14AM -0600, David Vernet wrote:
> > > +.. code-block:: c
> > > +
> > > + SEC("tp_btf/task_newtask")
> > > + int BPF_PROG(task_get_pid_example, struct task_struct *task, u64 clone_flags)
> > > + {
> > > + struct task_struct *lookup;
> > > +
> > > + lookup = bpf_task_from_pid(task->pid);
> > > + if (!lookup)
> > > + /* A task should always be found, as %task is a tracepoint arg. */
> > > + return -ENOENT;
> > > +
> > > + if (lookup->pid != task->pid) {
> > > + /* The pid of the lookup task should be the same as the input task. */
> >
> > I suspect both "errors" are actually possible in practice,
> > since bpf_task_from_pid is using init_pid_ns.
> > But this taskd might be in different pid_ns. See task_active_pid_ns.
> > Probably worth mentioning this aspect of bpf_task_from_pid.
>
> Yep, agreed. Will add
Actually, I don't think either error can ever happen. p->pid is globally
unique, and always uses the init_pid_ns. See [0] where p->pid is set,
and [1] for the implementation of pid_nr(). So I think the existing
example is actually correct, though I'll still add some comments to
explain that the kfunc only works for p->pid / the init_pid_ns.
[0]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git/tree/kernel/fork.c#n2326
[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git/tree/include/linux/pid.h#n181
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-05 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-02 22:07 [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] Document some recent core kfunc additions David Vernet
2022-12-02 22:07 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf/docs: Document struct task_struct * kfuncs David Vernet
2022-12-03 2:15 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-12-05 16:10 ` David Vernet
2022-12-05 20:58 ` David Vernet [this message]
2022-12-02 22:07 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] bpf/docs: Document struct cgroup " David Vernet
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